Ah, I'd wondered whether I could safely do that ... Just never really knew exactly how tied to a version an instance might be ... There could be changes in the ZCML for zope.conf for instance? ... Which is why I decided to to do it this way. Good to know the option is there though ... Maybe I'll do that next upgrade. J.F. -----Original Message----- From: zope-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org]On Behalf Of Paul Winkler Sent: August 20, 2004 5:15 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Re: Advice on upgrade? On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 04:36:40PM -0400, Jean-Francois.Doyon@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca wrote:

Yup, or maybe when you re-edited zope.conf you missed something.

Or maybe you also need to edit the paths in bin/runzope and bin/zopectl. But I wouldn't take that approach at all. One nice thing about instances is that you don't have to tie them to a particular release and you shouldn't have to edit anything when you upgrade. What I do is this: 1) install zope in a versionless directory, e.g. in your example /var/zope 2) cd /var/zope and create your instance, e.g. in your example: /var/zope/bin/mkzopeinstance.py and name the instance something like: /var/zope-instance (again, no version number) 3) mv /var/zope /var/zope272 4) ln -s /var/zope272 /var/zope Having done all that, your future upgrades will be easier. E.g. when zope 2.7.3 comes out, you can install it in /var/zope273 and then do: ln -sf /var/zope273 /var/zope and you're done. No changes in your instance necessary. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )